Massive news about the future of international soccer came out on Tuesday morning when FIFA announced that the World Cup would expand from 32 teams to 48 beginning in 2026. Here are the five biggest reasons why this decision hurts fans and helps FIFA.

The current format is absolute perfection

You won't convince me. You just won't. Trying to tell me that 48 teams in the World Cup is better than 32 is like trying to convince me that The Sopranos isn't the best show ever or that deep-dish pizza is better than New York style pizza. You won't and it's a waste of time.

The current 32-team format, with eight groups of four, is as good as it gets. Two teams advance from each group and then we have a perfect knockout stage with 16 teams. Half of the teams move on. It's not too much or too little, it's just a fantastic format that helps make the World Cup the greatest sporting competition in the world by a country mile.

Also, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Adding teams just adds confusion and will end up hurting the product in the eyes of soccer fans who appreciate the current format.

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It's all about the money

This change is about money. The World Cup could bring in an extra $640 million with these changes. This modification isn't because the cup needed more quality or anything like that. It's about that green paper that FIFA seems to always crave.

This will also impact smaller soccer federations and give them a much better chance of making the World Cup, but when the priority is money, it's never good for fans.

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Teams that don't belong will end up there

Remember this summer with Euro 2016 where we had an absurd 24 teams? That didn't go over too well. We had teams that we just don't see there. Five teams -- Wales, Slovakia, Northern Ireland, Iceland and Albania -- qualified for the first time. Without the format changes, we just don't see that happen. Now, sure, Iceland and Wales were great stories, but I'll counter that with the fact that this format saw Portugal win the cup after finishing third in its group. No team finishing third in a group should ever have the chance to win the tournament. That doesn't make it great, it makes it stupid.

Now, no third-place teams will advance in this new format, but that is because there are only three teams in each of the 16 groups.

Geez, I can't wait till the winner of Group P plays the runner up of Group O. Wow, that one stings to just write.

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Watered down World Cup

In 2026, you will have just as many teams in the knockout stages as there were entirely at the 2014 World Cup -- 32. That is just ridiculous. There is also a concern about how to do tiebreaks in each group.

All this adds is teams, and it hurts the quality. How long until we see an NCAA Tournament-style World Cup?

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Qualifying less important

With all these extra spots at the cup, which we don't know just yet where they will go, it could hurt qualifying big time as well. If things stay as is, South America could potentially get 70 percent of its teams to the World Cup.

What happens if there are three or four rounds of qualifying left and big guns have nothing to play for. Bolivia travels to Argentina with a chance to qualify, and the two-time World Cup champs rest their stars because they have long-been qualified? That would hurt ticket sales and so much more. Or if qualifying is decided early and the final games just don't matter? If FIFA can figure out a way to make sure late qualifying games are important, perhaps with more playoffs, then I'll reconsider. But as of now, this is all about money and not the fans.

But with FIFA, it's nothing new.

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